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In my own personal opinion, there are at least two major things that bring the prequels down:
The pacing sucks. They tried to cram too much shit into three movies, and the Episode 1 was kind of a wash for character development because they spend the entire movie simply introducing us to the main characters for the next two films. If they had either spread it out over more films or narrowed their scope a little more, it would have been a much more enjoyable viewing experience.
The dialogue is bad. The wooden acting, flat delivery of the lines, and lame slapstick I attribute to George being high off his own supply - both fans and the creative team puffing him up and telling him what a genius he is when what he really needed was someone in the room to step in and write and direct for him when he was clearly having issues with both late into production. Just in general he needed someone to tell him "No" from time to time.
There are probably more things than that, but just taking the prequels in a vacuum and not considering their greater impact on the lore, those are the two most glaring issues with them. Supplemental media spends a lot of time trying to plug plot holes and lore inconsistencies that were created by the prequels.
Overall I think they are decent but flawed films. I never thought that the political intrigues were bad, but they could have shown us more and told us less to really drive the point across.
I've long said that EpII should have been two films, with the first part being "Episode I" of the saga (basically ignore The Phantom Menace entirely). End with us seeing both the beginning of the Clone Wars and dealing with Anakin having a dark side when he murders the Tuskens. Second part is full-on clone wars, Anakin's growing relationship with both Padme and Palpatine. It ends with Anakin's turn to the dark side ("rhyming" with the dark cliff-hanger ending of Empire). Final film is Anakin hunting down and killing Jedi, with Obi-Wan on his tail.
Attack of the Clones crams way too much into its run-time and Revenge of the Sith presents Anakin's turn to the dark side as something way too sudden. Plus it completely undercuts Obi-Wan's dialogue in A New Hope about Vader being the one who hunts down and kills the Jedi.
This all being said, having watched the whole thing in "Machete Order" a few times in recent years with my kids, I have to say that Phantom Menace is probably the best prequel film. The use of practical effects is more frequent, the story is a bit tighter, the score is truly phenomenal, and Qui-Gon Jinn is just the best.